{"id":278144,"date":"2025-11-23T01:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T01:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/278144\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T01:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T01:18:10","slug":"titanic-passengers-pocket-watch-fetches-1-78m-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/278144\/","title":{"rendered":"Titanic passenger&#8217;s pocket watch fetches \u00a31.78m at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Straus was a Bavaria-born American businessman, politician, and co-owner of Macy&#8217;s department store in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On the night of the sinking, it is believed his devoted wife refused a place in a lifeboat as she did not want to leave her husband and said she would rather die by his side. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The body of Ida Straus was never found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A letter written by Mrs Straus on Titanic stationery and posted while she was onboard the ship, which was built in Belfast, fetched \u00a3100,000 at the auction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Titanic passenger list was purchased for \u00a3104,000 and a gold medal awarded to the crew of the RMS Carpathia by rescued survivors sold for \u00a386,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The auction of Titanic-related memorabilia reached \u00a33m in total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Straus was a Bavaria-born American businessman, politician, and co-owner of Macy&#8217;s department store in New York. On&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-278144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}